Dear all,

 

Welcome to the new Queer Refugees in the Nordics (Queen) Network email list. As some of you might have noticed, our previous attempts to create a list failed. In the future, if you wish to send an email on the list, please use this email: queens@lists.sunet.se

 

The next QUEEN Network event will be held in Malmö, as previous announced. I send the invitation again (attached). Please sign up, it´s all free of charge!

 

I also wish to draw your attention to two highly relevant and important events during the autumn:

1. Shaping Tomorrow: Queer Asylum in Europe conference on the 20-21 November 2025: https://coc.nl/blog/2025/07/28/call-for-papers-shaping-tomorrow-queer-asylum-in-europe-conference/
2. Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium, at Lund University in Sweden on 30–31 October 2025: https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/3rd-international-queerying-asylum-symposium

 

Some of you have also been asking me for the articles that formed the basis for my presentation in Malmö. They are now published!:

Wimark, T. (2025). Decoding Sexual Orientation in Refugee Status Determination: The Influence of Accounts of Emotions on Decision-Making in Sweden. International Migration 63(5): e70101. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.70101

 

Wimark, T. (2025). The Limits of Refugee Status Determination Through Credibility Assessment: Empirical Evidence from Sexual Orientation Asylum Cases. International Migration Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251360677

 

Stay tuned,

Thomas

 

Thomas Wimark, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Human Geography

Pronouns: he, him, his
Department of Human Geography

Uppsala University

Box 513

SE-75120 Uppsala
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